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2008 Guardian First Book Award


The Guardian First Book Award was the first literary prize to be sponsored by a newspaper in the UK. Originally conceived as a prize for works of fiction, the criteria have now been altered to include all genres by first-time authors. Last Year's First Book Award went to Dinaw Mengestu for Children of the Revolution.

Shortlist - 2008 Guardian First Book Award


A Case of Exploding Mangoes
by: Mohammed Hanif

by: Mohammed Hanif

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Hardcover - 304 pages
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Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
by: Owen Matthews

by: Owen Matthews

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Hardcover - 320 pages
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
A history of 20th-century music, by Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker Magazine

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God's Own Country
by Ross Raisin

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A Fraction of the Whole
by Steve Toltz
Also shortlisted for
the Man Booker prize.

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Winner - Guardian First Book Award, 2007


Children of the Revolution
by: Dinaw Mengestu

by: Dinaw Mengestu

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Hardcover - 240 pages
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